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A75711	Religious covenanting directed, and covenant-keeping perswaded: presented, in a sermon preached before the Right Honourable Thomas Adams Lord Major, and the right worshipfull the sheriffs, and aldermen his brethren, and the rest of the Common-Councel of the famous City of London, January 14. 1645. Upon which day the solemne League and Covenant was renewed by them and their officers, with prayer and fasting, at Michael Basing-shaw, London. / By Simeon Ash minister of the Gospel.	Ashe, Simeon, d. 1662.	1646 (1646)	Wing A3965; Thomason E327_5; ESTC R200647	18,380	27

them to hear prayers and to performe promises for their preservation and welfare in every kinde who hath God so nigh unto them as the Lord our God in all things that we call upon him for Deu. 4. 7. Thirdly the call unto this imployment I shall note under a five fold providence from the Lord. 1. Sinfull defections from God that by means of religious vowing his backsliding people might be recovered Our fathers have trespassed and done that which is evil in the eyes of the Lord our God and have forsaken him and have turned away their face from the habitation of the Lord and turned their backs Also they have shut up the doors of the porch and put out the lamps and have not burnt incense nor offered burnt offerings in the holy place unto the God of Israel Now it is in my heart saith Hezekiah to make a Covenant with the Lord God of Israel 2 Chron. 29. 6 7 10. Thus likewise the people of God resolved in the dayes of Ezra We have trespassed against our God c. Now therefore let us make a Covenant with our God Ezra 10. 2 3. 2. Sad discoveries of divine displeasure that by holy covenanting present judgements might be removed and future evils prevented The wrath of the Lord was upon Judah and Jerusalem and he hath delivered them to trouble to astonishment and to hissing as ye see with your eyes For lo our fathers have fallen by the sword and our sons and our daughters and our wives are in captivity for this Now it is in mine heart saith Hezekiah to make a covenant with the Lord God of Israel that his fierce wrath may turne away from us 2 Chron. 29. 8 9 10. 3. Famous experiences of Gods goodnesse that by the right use of religions vows his Majesty may be praised and his providences improved The exhortation in the Text was grounded upon some such occasion as many verses in the Psalme declare The stout-hearted are spoiled they have slept their sleep and none of the men of might have found their hands ver 5. At thy rebuke O God of Jacob both the chariot and horse are cast into a dead-sleep ver 6. When God arose in judgement to save all the meek of the earth ver 8. Hence follows vow and pay c. Interpreters judge that this Psalm was penned upon Ashurs overthrow whereupon many brought gifts unto the Lord unto Jerusalam 2 Chron. 32. 23. according to the advice given in the words immediatly following the Text Bring presents unto him that ought to be feared 4. Defective improvements if any improvements at all of Gods favourable administrations that by foederall engagements his people might be bettered These are the words of the covenant which the Lord commanded Moses c. Ye have seen all that the Lord did before your eyes even in the land of Egypt c. The great temptations and those great miracles yet the Lord hath not given you an heart to perceive and eyes to see and ears to hear unto this day Deut. 29. 1 2 3 4. This is propounded as one ground of the Covenant renewed whereof we reade in the following verses 5. Apparent danger of seduction and departure from God In this regard Gods servants have afresh obliged themselves to his Majesty for their own establishment and preservation Ye stand this day before the Lord to enter into covenant with the Lord thy God lest there should be amongst you any whose heart turneth away from the Lord Deut. 29. 10 12 18. V se 1 The application of this point followeth which serves in the first place to informe you of your call to covenant-renewing the intended service of this day For give me leave to appeal unto your consciences Right Honourable right Worshipfull and much respected Citizens whether all the five fore-mentioned particulars do not fully reach you and take hold upon you both in respect of Gods dealings with you and your miscarriages towards him since you at first took the solemne League and Covenant And here I shall make bold to propound unto you some short interrogatories under the five fore-mentioned heads to which I wish your hearts may returne answers as in the presence of the All-knowing God First Are you not guilty of sinfull declinings in a great degree from your former engagements unto the Lord Have you not lost your first love Have not the matters of Gods house been much sleighted and neglected Hath not your care to preserve the truth of Religion from corruption been much abated Have you not connived at the spreading of pernicious errours in this City Hath not your zeal against schisme and sinfull separations from our Church Assemblies been very much cooled Is not your love towards our Brethren of Scotland in a great measure lessened Have not your vigorous endeavours to promote the setling of Christs government in our Congregations been wofully diminished And have you not been lamentably wanting in labouring the thorow reformation of your selves and families Which of you hath striven to exceed to excell others in advancing the power of godlinesse in your conversation Doubtlesse these and such like backslidings from former engagements may well warrant your Covenant-renewing with your God Secondly None of you can be ignorant of the manifold manifest discoveries of Gods heavy displeasure against this poor trembling Kingdom Hath not the Lord delivered us up unto trouble and astonishment by his severe administrations How many thousands have fallen by the sword of cruell war What wofull desolations are made in many Towns yea Counties in this Kingdom by the prevailing pitilesse enemies And should not we read Gods wrath against our selves in the abundance of blood which hath been shed and the unhappy spoils which have been made in Scotland and Ireland Besides all this I pray you consider whether these things do not proclaim and speak alowd Gods anger Our long looked for reformation in matters of Religion is still deferred our hopes of the much-needed and much-desired Discipline of Jesus Christ are still disappointed the miserable rents and divisions in families Congregations Cities and Counties by reason of different yea contrary opinions and practices in wayes of Religion are wonderfully increased And have we not in these regards reason to renew our Covenant that the wrath of the Lord may be turned from us Thirdly God hath often remembred us in our low estate because his mercy endureth for ever Who can recount Gods many marvellous works for our safety and comfort Have not our deliverances been wonderfull and many of our victories little lesse then miraculous How often hath the subtiil enemy been infatuated the strong enemy weakned and great Armies broken by a little strength I shall not need here to minde you of the many wonders which Gods Almighty hand hath wrought for us both in the Northerne and Westerne parts And as for this City how admirably and unexpectedly hath it been preserved and provided for in every kinde by the Lord